News archive for 15th February 2021

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Matthew Goodwin: Academics like me live in fear of the woke hate mob - Mail Margaret Thatcher's old Oxford college Somerville makes all students take an 'unconscious bias' test - Mail Headteachers begin making plans for phased return to schools - Telegraph Schools not driving Covid and keeping them closed is damaging children, reports show - Telegraph Major exam board backs calls for A-level and GCSE reform - Telegraph Post-18 reform: Don't rob Peter to pay Paul - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why employer knowledge is a force we can harness - Times Educational Supplement | TES School support recovery offer: coronavirus (COVID-19) - DfE Mum calls for schools to return as lockdown takes devastating toll on daughter - Metro Parents struggle to talk about money worries without 'school gates' chats - Mirror The Guardian view on British history: we need to know - Guardian The pressure to lengthen school day 'relies on a myth' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching School Hubs: The best model to boost teachers? - Times Educational Supplement | TES What hope of lasting change in education? - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Lower attaining’ children’s learning threatened by performativity culture - IOE London Blog Sturgeon 'very keen' for younger pupils to return - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted's head of research leaves watchdog - Times Educational Supplement | TES When will schools reopen in Scotland? Date primary and secondary pupils could return - Scotsman Looking through the digital lens - Advance HE Data standards are key for collaboration - Jisc Homeschooling: links with inequality are far from new - The Conversation Science fiction or science fact? - UKEdChat Developing employability skills in lockdown: Challenging students’ misconceptions - ASCL The Treasury revokes exit payment legislation - NAHT Making apprenticeships accessible in 2021 - Careers & Enterprise Company Early years sector asked for feedback on Birth to 5 Matters latest draft - EYE | Early Years Educator More than a million under-fives living in poverty - EYE | Early Years Educator There is no evidence schools drive the spread of coronavirus in local communities - Mail Amazon is donating 10,000 Fire tablets to help struggling children learn from home - The Sun Covid: 'No evidence' schools spread lots of coronavirus - BBC Johnson does not rule out staggered return to school in England - Guardian UK schools reopening: Unions reject plans for March 8 classroom return as 'impossible' - Express Staggered re-opening of schools next month not ruled out by government - Metro Coronavirus in Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon issues warning over potential transmission 'around schools' - Scotsman By accepting fewer independent school students, is Oxbridge punishing middle-class parents? - Telegraph 'No evidence' schools play big role in spreading Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES International Baccalaureate 2021: UK exams cancelled - Times Educational Supplement | TES Union: ‘Youngest pupils should not return full time’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Forget 'catch-up' panic – we need relentless optimism - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2021: Call to ditch ‘potty mini exams’ plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES PM: 'No decisions' made on simultaneous school return - Times Educational Supplement | TES Birth to 5 Matters guidance - have your say - Nursery World London Mayor calls for Government to step in to support capital's 'struggling' nurseries - Nursery World Primary schoolchildren ‘must be priority’, says children’s commissioner Anne Longfield - Evening Standard Will we have to grade 2021 exams by crystal ball? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Catch-up: Why pupils need to feel safe and listened to - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus restrictions in youth jails ‘impacting children’s wellbeing’ - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Initiative to bust Covid vaccine myths launched in schools - CYPN | Children & Young People Now When will schools reopen? This is what we know so far - HuffPost Covid: Home schooling pupils in Wales still waiting for laptops, charity says - BBC N.Ireland schools not 'major source' of spreading Covid - BBC Unions urge teachers to strike if they don't get pay rises before schools reopen on March 8 - The Sun Schools reopening: Academies chief demands kids put in marquees in playgrounds & ‘potty’ mini exams are scrapped - The Sun Why the ferocious resistance to the idea of 'catch up'? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pearson launches ‘major’ consultation into the future of exams amid calls for end to GCSEs - FE Week How to reopen schools: Academies boss says government must vaccinate staff - Mail The Ebacc is not the answer to closing the poverty gap in our school system - Telegraph Allowing children to play together should be a bigger priority than catching up on school work - Telegraph GCSEs: Exam board’s 14-19 qualifications ‘re-think’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Outrage after female gender studies professor to be ‘replaced by men’ - Independent Pearson launches ‘major’ consultation into the future of exams amid calls for end to GCSEs - Schools Week Scottish government accused of ‘stitch-up’ over OECD review - Times Educational Supplement | TES Without swift action, COVID-19 could usher in an age of greater inequality - Social Market Foundation | SMF Catch-up: Longer school days backed by children's tsar - Times Educational Supplement | TES How can we support teachers to handle their students’ catch-up? Support from an online source - HEPI Unions pour cold water on plan to reopen classrooms on March 8 and say phased return to school should remain an option - Mail Scotland: Claim that supply teachers have been forgotten in pandemic - Scotsman 'Composite classes' widespread in Scottish schools - Scotsman Pearson launches major national consultation into the future of qualifications and assessment in the UK - Pearson A week in HE brings something old, new, borrowed and blue – but little to warm the heart - MediaFHE Edenred won third free school meals voucher contract without open tender - Schools Week Barrhead school breakfast scheme to be rolled out across the UK after success of Scottish pilot - Herald Scotland We need to bolster the research and technical workforce to reach the 2.4 per cent target - Wonkhe The Hidden REF celebrates the whole research ecosystem - Wonkhe Do local industries need local skills? And do universities deliver? - Wonkhe Legislation to ban essay mills is the missing link to combat education fraud - Wonkhe Another end to this year is possible - Wonkhe “But what about the apprentice?” The growing “skills lag” and the hidden effect of the pandemic - FE News Pearson donates cash and 250 laptops to Mail Force drive... and pledges more on the way - Mail Skidmore hopes to push UK government to outlaw essay mills - Times Higher Education | THE Commercial return on investment should count in UK R&D funding - Times Higher Education | THE English minister’s academic freedom broadside ‘confects conflict’ - Times Higher Education | THE Gender studies professor Alison Kerr replaced by men at St Andrews University - Times - New Academics with ‘high risk’ China links get Porton Down funding - Times - New Anne Longfield’s plea to help sixth of pupils who won’t make up lost time - Times - New Education system needs an overhaul - Times - New Scotland: Criticism over SNP’s ‘scandalous’ delay of OECD Scottish schools review - Times - New Mass-testing teachers and pupils for Covid could help Scottish schools reopen soon - Times - New Ireland: Childcare staff wages should be paid for by the state, say 55% of public - Times - New Top Education Reports in Autumn 2020: Bristol Document Summary Service - UCET